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9/16/2010 Jon_Wake: Open-Source Springpunk Setting
Here's the dish-- I'm Jon, I'm a comic writer and gaming nerd from highschool onward.  I've written a comic called Virtuoso.  It's a Creative Commons (Attribution, Share-Alike) licensed book, so…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Jon_Wake, Mike Sugarbaker, Abkajud.

9/16/2010 The Dragon Master: [Sorcerer] Fast and Multiple Actions. An epiphany... I think
While working up a character who was meant to be a berserker, it occurred to me that the rules don't support a character who's noticably faster than the other characters…
In Adept Press
Participants: The Dragon Master, Paiku, Ron Edwards.

9/16/2010 vellu82: [Solar System] Extended Conflict
Hi. I have a little question about the Extended Conflict. Here is part of the wiki (with underlined the part of my interest): There are two reasons for escalating: one…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: vellu82, Eero Tuovinen.

9/16/2010 davidberg: David Berg's game
[b]Core mechanic idea: Secret tribunal.[/b] 1. Each player leaves the room, while the other players (in character) briefly discuss them. - 1a) If they disobeyed the last vote, assign them…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: davidberg, Frank Tarcikowski.

9/15/2010 a flight of stairs: Allignment
I'm writing something realism-heavy, and I was wondering how important allignment is to realism-based RPGs. I came up with the following, which is comprehensive but clunky. Good/Evil Pure/Corrupt Lawful/Unlawful Moral/Immoral…
In First Thoughts
Participants: a flight of stairs, Noon, Coplantor, Ar Kayon, Chris_Chinn, Locke, BunniRabbi.

9/15/2010 aryus: Martin's Game Thread
Almost forgot about this. First time doing the Game Chef. Love all the cool game ideas. Anyway, here's what I'm working on: Necropolis, The Journey from Death to the Afterlife.…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: aryus, baxil.

9/15/2010 Nath: [black dog] play report
Game Summary: Black Dog is a jeepform scenario for 3-6 players, playing out one character's descent into depression.  The main protagonist character passes between different players in different scenes.  A…
In Actual Play
Participants: Nath, Noon, J. Tuomas Harviainen, Ron Edwards.

9/15/2010 Motipha: Review of Zombie Cinema at the Jankcast
Hey all.  I'm a host on the jankcast, a gaming podcast where we do mostly discuss things in gaming that we've been thinking about.  We occasionally do reviews, and have…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: Motipha, Eero Tuovinen, toddjank.

9/15/2010 Thor: [The Twelve Battles of Arthur Nobel] thor's game
Not a good time, not the game I should be working on, yadda yadda..... TBoAN is a Western Set on the Mars of Edger Rice Burroughs and recapitulating the twelve…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: Thor, jasonm.

9/15/2010 Fabienh: [Polaris] Resources
I have read Polaris, which seems to be a really great game. Unfortunately, I cannot download the resources. For instance : http://www.tao-games.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/polarissheet5.pdf leads to an error. Since I ordered Polaris…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: Fabienh, Artanis.

9/15/2010 devlin1: Mike's Game Thread (Title Pending)
I don't really have anything to post here right now, but I said I'd start a thread, so... here it is. I guess I can post some thoughts on a…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: devlin1.

9/15/2010 Courage75: [SS] Ability Ranks Beyond Grandmaster?
Hi All, For those of you who don't know, I've been running a monthly Werewolf: the Forsaken (W:tF) game using SS for a while now and it is still going…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: Courage75, Eero Tuovinen.

9/15/2010 Kalladeron: [Multiverse] Need some help and advices.
Hi everybody, I am trying develop a RPG system and I need some help and advices. My objective is create a system focused on action for fantasy settings. I think…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Kalladeron, Certified.

9/14/2010 AdriannaDD: [Chrysalis] 2 Players, 1 Body
Just to review Chrysalis is a game about teenagers who find their bodies host to an extraterrestrial parasite that just wants to go home and all the while trying to…
In First Thoughts
Participants: AdriannaDD, VAgentZero, a flight of stairs, Necromantis.

9/14/2010 buffaloraven: Travis's Game
Working Title: The Fall of Granada. Pitch: In 1492, Castillians and other Europeans destroyed the last of the Berber Muslim kingdoms on the Iberian Peninsula, Granada.  The ‘great’ Reconquista of…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: buffaloraven, wildduck.

9/14/2010 Gunnox: LichSpace - Any ideas???
-Please read the DrakeStrike post before reading this because that post contains info about the main mechanics- While I work on LichScape (First known as DrakeStrike) I got the idea…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Gunnox, chronoplasm.

9/14/2010 wildduck: Sean Nittner's Game Thread
What grabbed me about the contest, was the theme: Journey.  I was instantly reminded of the Ribbon Drive game I played with Joe, Justin and Zach last year at Gen…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: wildduck, buffaloraven.

9/14/2010 ristarr: [MLWM] newbie scenario
I just played MLFM at dragoncon for the first time. My copy just arrived in the mail today ( thanks for the extremely fast shipping! ). I am going to…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: ristarr, Adam Dray.

9/14/2010 epweissengruber: In this Sign I Conquer: Story Game of Galactic Conquest
I want to see a game where the GM is a referee between two species competing for domination of the Galaxy. The inspirations are * Theory from the Closet's interview…
In First Thoughts
Participants: epweissengruber, stefoid, contracycle, Gregor Hutton.

9/14/2010 luminos: [Dresden Files RPG] Learning GMing skills
Hi everyone, I'm Jay, and I'm new to the forge. I'm playing a Dresden Files game (over a chat program, if its relevant) in which I am the GM.  I…
In Actual Play
Participants: luminos, Chris_Chinn, Noon, oculusverit, Clay, contracycle.

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9/16/2010 davide.losito: Davide Losito's game - Finders.
I was extremely inspired by this year theme and ingredients and I got an epiphany. This is the result. Finders. This game is about telling the story of the…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: davide.losito, jasonm, devlin1, Ron Edwards.

9/16/2010 The Magus: London Indie RPG Meetup
Following the near hysterical response to my last post about meeting to play indie games in London, UK I've set up a group to play indie RPGs.  At first we'll…
In Conventions
Participants: The Magus.

9/16/2010 The Dragon Master: [Sorcerer] Demons, Sorcerers, and multiple targets...
This is about handling attacks that should (logically) injure multiple parties, so let's handle it one example as separate entities rather than as a single issue (which I did in…
In Adept Press
Participants: The Dragon Master, jburneko, John Stephens, Marshall Burns.

9/16/2010 Chill: Unnamed Fantasy
I'm looking to design a fantasy game as a hobby, just something that suits the style of game my friends and I enjoy playing. I'm not really looking to re-invent…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Chill, Ar Kayon, masqueradeball, Adam Dray, Certified, VAgentZero, Locke.

9/17/2010 Nath: [Passion Fruit] Play report
Played by three players at Fastaval, in April 2010. Play account written by one of the players: "A live-action role-playing game with peeling a piece of fruit as a game…
In Actual Play
Participants: Nath, Noon.

9/17/2010 Theo: A discussion on Stakes
I was just reading through the forums, and buried in the thread 'two sessions in: how it's going for my group', I saw what seemed to be a consensus about…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Theo, Paka, Chris_Chinn, Eero Tuovinen, jburneko.

9/17/2010 Shimera9: Playtest Passes
I recently put Mezzo into playtest (http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forge/index.php?topic=30292.0).  Some of you may remember it from the Emergent Character's thread in First Thoughts (http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forge/index.php?topic=29575.0). I'd planned on doing my playtesting in rounds. …
In Playtesting
Participants: Shimera9, Ron Edwards, Noon.

9/18/2010 Vulpinoid: The game(s) I'm looking forward to...
I've been working pretty heavily on my own game over the last couple of days and haven't had the chance to offer the feedback I'd like. But I'm taking a…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: Vulpinoid, buffaloraven, il mietitore.

9/18/2010 andrew_kenrick: [Dead of Night] Bad Signal at Concrete Cow
One of the games I ran last weekend at Concrete Cow was one of the scenarios I'm writing for a Dead of Night scenario supplement, Bad Signal. The set-up was…
In Actual Play
Participants: andrew_kenrick, Frank Tarcikowski, Ron Edwards.

9/19/2010 The Dragon Master: [Sorcerer] Sorcerer's In Suburia : Prep
As usual I put off prep till the last weekend figuring it'd be fine as is. Until I ran across a reminder that I hadn't yet really nailed down the…
In Adept Press
Participants: The Dragon Master, Ron Edwards, Vortigern, Paiku, Roger.

9/20/2010 Ron Edwards: [Kagematsu] Ghosts, innocence, spring in the mountains
Hello, Dice Dojo game of the week! The participants included Megan, Peter (same guy from the Contenders game), Michael, and me. Also, Sam (from the Contenders game) sat in to…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards.

9/20/2010 Gryffudd: Now for the long wait
Well, it's done. Things kinda fell apart in the middle of the week, so I spent a few days rethinking things and had to do all the writing over this…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: Gryffudd, Vulpinoid, devlin1, baxil, solarom.

9/20/2010 ShallowThoughts: Ruminations on the Impossible Dream Before Breakfast
I have no expectations of anyone responding to this post, but I'll gladly reply to anyone who does. I'm really more expressing a conclusion I've come to, because I thought…
In Actual Play
Participants: ShallowThoughts, Adam Dray, contracycle, masqueradeball, Noon, Vulpinoid, Ron Edwards, Motipha, Roger, Caldis.

9/20/2010 Revontuli: The Hand of Gulliver the Man-Mountain by Mike Pohjola
Hey y'all! I wrote a game based on Gulliver's Travels, where your finger represents your character, and you move it on the Game Master's hand exploring the manifold secrets of…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: Revontuli.

9/20/2010 Shinobicow: Edge of Annihilation - The Last City
Woot! My game is complete. I have been going at it non-stop since I started this project like last Wednesday. It is done as of now and submitted, but I…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: Shinobicow.

9/20/2010 Artanis: [Zombie Cinema] Idea for slowing down conflicts
Hello Eero and all Sometimes Zombie Cinema gets heavy on the conflict, people just going into the conflict for conflict's sake. On the one hand, I think it's just a…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: Artanis, Eero Tuovinen.

9/20/2010 R00kie: Submission Time has Passed but
Moments after submitting my game for this year I had a great idea for an entirely different take on the ingredients. The first game was fun to write so I'm…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: R00kie, Vulpinoid.

9/21/2010 dindenver: [City in Darkness] aka Edge of Mystery
Hi!   I found a new name that better highlights the themes of my game.   Basically, the game is about graduating from a school of magic in a Harry…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: dindenver.

9/21/2010 RobJustice: [Danger Close] Released Version 3, looking for more feedback.
[b]Disclaimer[/b]: I've been lurking here for awhile now, signed up for an account a little while ago, and am now finally posting something. If I dropped this in the wrong…
In Connections
Participants: RobJustice, Ron Edwards, Jason Pitre.

9/21/2010 Stregheria Games: Stregoneria RPG Latest News and Big Changes!
Big changes have been afoot since my last post about the game: the Stregoneria rulebook will now have the 'Blood on the Battlefield' supplement integrated into it and will also…
In Publishing
Participants: Stregheria Games, Chris_Chinn.

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